Combat is a secondary skill in Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It increases a hero's Melee and Ranged Defense.
Combat is related to secondary skills Melee, Archery and Magic Resistance. By default, barbarians and archers start with this skill.
Combat can be combined with other secondary skills, which grants hero an advanced class:
- Chaos Magic: Fireguard
- Death Magic: Assassin
- Life Magic: Paladin
- Nature Magic: Beastmaster
- Nobility: Warlord
- Order Magic: Battle Mage
- Scouting: Ranger
- Tactics: General
Levels[]
Basic[]
Basic Combat increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense to 15. It has no prerequesits.
This skill allows the hero to learn:
Advanced[]
Advanced Combat increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense to 20. It requires the hero to learn Basic Combat.
This skill allows the hero to learn:
Expert[]
Expert Combat increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense to 30. It requires the hero to learn Advanced Combat.
This skill allows the hero to learn:
Master[]
Master Combat increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense to 40. It requires the hero to learn Expert Combat.
Grandmaster[]
Grandmaster Combat increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense to 60. It requires the hero to learn Master Combat.
This is the final level of Combat skill, and does not unlock any additional skills. The hero can instead develop the Melee, Archery and Magic Resistance skills, if needed.
Bonuses[]
Combat has related artifacts, structures and spells that also increase potency, by having:
- Arena of Honor built in Stronghold town
- stoneskin spell cast
- spiritual armor/celestial armor spell cast
- blur/mass blur spell cast (for ranged defense)
- Left arm artifact equipped:
- shield
- dwarven shield
- steadfast shield
- dragon scale shield
- Chaos shield
- Death shield
- Life shield
- Order shield
- Unnatural shield
- lion's shield of courage
- adamantine shield
- Right arm artifact equipped, for melee defense only:
- longsword
- angel's blade
- giant slayer
- flaming sword
- soul stealer
- sword of switness
- Sword of the Gods
- true Gryphonheart blade
- false Gryphonheart blade
- chest artifact equipped:
- leather
- chain mail
- plate mail
- golden plate mail
- dragon scale armor
- Chaos armor
- Death armor
- Life armor
- Order armor
- Unnatural armor
- scale mail of strength
- breastplate of regeneration
- brimstone breastplate
- Gryphonheart's plate mail
- adamantine armor
- harmonic chainmail
- tiger armor
- helm artifact tiger helm equipped
- ring artifact ring of light equipped
- cloak artifact cloak of darkness equipped
